Forward of coming into Manhattan court docket on Tuesday, former President Donald Trump slammed anti-Israel protests raging on school campuses as a “disgrace” whereas pinning blame on President Biden.
“What’s going on at the college level … Columbia, NYU and others is a disgrace. And it’s really on Biden,” Trump mentioned Tuesday morning outdoors the courtroom.
“He’s got the wrong words. He doesn’t know who he’s backing. And it’s a mess. And if this were me, they’d be after me, they’d be after me so much, but they’re trying to get him a pass. And what’s going on is a disgrace to our country. And it’s all Biden’s fault, and everybody knows it. He’s got no message, he’s got no compassion and doesn’t know what he’s doing,” Trump continued, adding Biden is the “worst president in the history of our country.”
Antisemitism has intensified on the campuses of a number of the nation’s most elite universities in latest days, together with protesters on Columbia’s campus saying Jewish college students had been Hamas’s “next targets” amid ongoing demonstrations. Greater than 100 college students had been arrested on Columbia’s campus final week, whereas dozens extra had been arrested on Yale’s and NYU’s campuses this week. Some college students have additionally established encampments on campus demanding their faculties fully divest from Israel.
Former US President Donald Trump speaks to members of the media at Manhattan legal court docket in New York, US, on Monday, April 15, 2024. Jury choice beings Monday in Trumps legal trial the place he faces 34 felony counts of falsifying enterprise data as a part of an alleged scheme to silence claims of extramarital sexual encounters throughout his 2016 presidential marketing campaign. (Angela Weiss/AFP/Bloomberg by way of Getty Photographs)
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A rabbi at Columbia even warned Jewish college students to go away campus as a result of antisemitism, whereas a professor on the college informed Fox Digital this weekend that anti-Israel campus teams have morphed into turning into an “actual terror organization” in the course of the latest protests.
Anti-Israel agitators assemble an encampment on Columbia College’s campus in New York Metropolis on Monday, April 22, 2024. The college introduced that every one lessons could be held just about in the present day in response to the continued demonstrations on campus. (Peter Gerber)
“Al-Qassam you make us proud, kill another soldier now,” protesters on Columbia’s campus had been seen chanting over the weekend, referring to the army wing terrorist group Hamas.
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Biden and the White Home has condemned the protests, together with on Monday when he got here underneath fireplace for equating the antisemitic protests with individuals who “don’t understand” the Palestinians.
Anti-Israel agitators assemble an encampment on Columbia College’s campus in New York Metropolis on Monday, April 22, 2024. The college introduced that every one lessons could be held just about in the present day in response to the continued demonstrations on campus. (Peter Gerber)
“I condemn the antisemitic protests. That’s why I have set up a program to deal with that. I also condemn those who don’t understand what’s going on with the Palestinians,” Biden informed reporters Monday.
Trump continued in his feedback Tuesday that Biden is “no friend of Israel” or the “Arab world.”
Former President Donald Trump leaves Trump Tower on his strategy to Manhattan legal court docket, Monday, April 15, 2024, in New York. The hush cash trial of former President Donald Trump begins Monday with jury choice. It is a singular second for American historical past as the primary legal trial of a former U.S. commander in chief. (AP Picture/Yuki Iwamura)
“It all starts with Joe Biden. The signals he puts out are so bad. And I can tell you he’s no friend of Israel, that’s for sure. And he’s no friend of the Arab world either,” Trump mentioned Tuesday morning outdoors the courtroom.
President Joe Biden was not too long ago grilled by The Washington Put up for all of the embellished tales he has informed audiences over his profession. (Ting Shen/Bloomberg by way of Getty Photographs)
“He wants to take like a middle ground. And oftentimes that doesn’t work, but it’s certainly not working here. But what he’s done to Israel is abandon them, and he’s trying to be as nice as he can to the other side,” Trump continued.
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The forty fifth president is in Manhattan for the second week of his trial involving 34 counts of allegedly falsifying enterprise data within the first diploma. He pleaded not responsible to all costs.
Prosecutor Matthew Colangelo makes opening statements as former U.S. President Donald Trump watches along with his legal professional Todd Blanche earlier than Justice Juan Merchan throughout Trump’s legal trial on costs that he falsified enterprise data to hide cash paid to silence porn star Stormy Daniels in 2016, in Manhattan state court docket in New York Metropolis, U.S. April 22, 2024 on this courtroom sketch. (REUTERS/Jane Rosenberg)
The fees had been introduced by the Manhattan District Lawyer’s workplace in connection to Trump’s former private legal professional Michael Cohen paying former pornographic actor Stormy Daniels $130,000 forward of the 2016 election to allegedly quiet her claims of an extramarital affair. Trump has denied having an affair with Daniels.
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Prosecutors allege that the Trump Group reimbursed Cohen and fraudulently logged the funds as authorized bills. Prosecutors are working to show that Trump falsified data with an intent to commit or conceal a second crime, which is a felony.
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The case kicked off in earnest on Monday, after the court docket spent final week choosing and seating 12 jurors and 6 alternates to the panel. Tuesday will embody a listening to on the prosecution’s request that Trump be held in contempt for violating a gag order, which bans him from talking publicly about witnesses and relations of court docket officers, in addition to continued testimony for the trial’s first witness, former media writer David Pecker.
